Lightning Ridge

  • It took a few years in the early 1900''s for the famous Black Opal to become acknowledged for its true quality and rare beauty. Lightning Ridge has become synonymous with Black Opal mining in Australia. Visitors either fossicking for fun or looking for their fortune and numbers far outweigh the tiny population. Lighting Ridge offers a true vision of gritty life in the Australian outback. The town''s mineral water spa baths are simply luxurious.

  • Walk In Mine
    Walk In Mine

    The Walk In Mine is the most easily accessed mine, and the longest running tourist

  • Black Queen
    Black Queen

    Black Queen, Theatre on the Ridge. A house built with 14,000 coloured bottles. Enchanting stories

  • Chambers of the Black Hand
    Chambers of the Black Hand

    Ron Canlin has created an amazing art gallery at Chambers of the Black Hand. The

  • John Murray Art Gallery
    John Murray Art Gallery

    John Murray Art Gallery in Lightning Ridge is the exclusive outlet for original John Murray

  • Australian Opal Centre
    Australian Opal Centre

    Did you know that Lightning Ridge is the only dinosaur fossil site in New South

  • Opal Bin
    Opal Bin

    Opal Bin have a collection of Lightning Ridge opalised fossils, amazing carved opals, great opal

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